Preparations are well underway for XRDC in San Francisco later this month, and as you finalize your travel plans for this AR/VR/MR innovation event, now seems like a great time to highlight some of the fascinating automotive content you'll see at the show!

Organizers are working hard to ensure that XRDC in San Francisco next month is the best it can be, and today we're excited to announce that tech titans Microsoft, Oculus, and Viveport have signed on to help out as Platinum Sponsors of the show!

With just four weeks to go until XRDC kicks off in San Francisco later this month, event organizers want to be sure you don't miss out on some of the fascinating opportunities you'll have to see the future of healthcare at this premier conference for augmented, virtual, and mixed reality innovators.

Outside the world of games, VR and XR don't just have potential to help in advanced medical procedures, they also have the power to help people in their day to day well-being, coping with stress and other mental health challenges.

Hey devs, we're back today to remind you that Game Developers Conference organizers are still accepting submissions for the 21st annual Independent Games Festival (IGF), the longest running festival, summit and showcase of independent games -- but only until Monday!

With just four weeks to go until XRDC kicks off in San Francisco later this month, event organizers want to be sure you don't miss out on some of the fascinating opportunities you'll have to see the future of healthcare at this premier conference for augmented, virtual, and mixed reality innovators.

We've talked a lot on this blog about how VR is helping game-makers and medical experts make better experiences for the future. But can VR be better used to train people like athletes and employees? Ginny Willis believes so. She and her colleague Rosstin Murphy of STRIVR will be taking the stage at XRDC 2018 to discuss how they're developing software that helps athletes and other specialized fields better train themselves using virtual reality.

Top talent from across the fields of augmented, virtual, and mixed reality will be at XRDC in San Francisco next month, where you'll have a chance to study the cutting edge of how this tech is being used to help people learn.

When working in virtual reality, it's not often that developers get to recreate the image of people who've influenced the world in so many important ways. But at XRDC this year, Dream Reality Interactive art director Laura Dodds will be discussing about what it's like to recreate someone's presence in virtual reality and honor their work in the process.

To help inspire you to submit your game to GDC's offbeat controller prototype showcase Alt.Ctrl.GDC, we thought it might be nice to highlight some standout submissions from Alt.Ctrl.GDCs past, starting with Spacebeagles' incredibly charming sniff-'em-up Butt Sniffin Pugs!